Page 33 of Repo'd His Heart
“Yeah, she talks about you all the time.”
“Aww, you can bring her around whenever. I don’t mind.”
“I hear you. What you been up to?”
“Nothing just working. You know I’m saving up to find a place and a car eventually.”
“Yeah, I know this bus,”
“Skoolie,” I cut him off, correcting him.
“Skoolie,is ya baby or whatever but it’s small as fuck. I can’t imagine living in this bitch for so long.”
“It really wasn’t that bad when Sunshyne was a baby but now that she’s bigger and wanting to play all the time we need more space. I’m trying to get rid of my skoolie though. So, either I need a big ass garage or driveway.”
“I mean you can leave it here. I ain’t bothering nothing and honestly you can keep one of the company cars. Nobody uses them for real."
“I don’t know about the company car, and I don’t want to have to drive here every time I want to go inside my skoolie.” I appreciated Marlo’s offers, but I felt like that was depending on him entirely too much.
Marlo mugged me like I said something rude to him. “Why you always wanna make shit difficult?”
“I’m not being difficult, but I don’t want to depend on anyone too much and I be somewhere looking stupid in the long run when they're sick of helping me.”
Scrunching his face up at me, Marlo was clearly appalled by my words. “You take me as that type of nigga?”
“I don’t take you for nothing besides what I see and what I've experienced in the past. Let’s be real, you have a girlfriend who would probably lose her fucking mind if she saw you helping me with so many things." I explained to him. Marlo wasn’t in theposition to be offering to do certain things for me and nor was he obligated to.
“Ion know what you experienced in the past but I ain’t that nigga and can’t nobody move me or shape my decisions. I do what I want and if muthafuckas don’t like it they move the fuck around.”
“I hear you, Marlo.” I sighed, what he said sounded good, but I still was leery because words were just that until they had actions behind them.
“It’s settled then; you can use the Mitsubishi Outlander. Matter a fact, Monday we can go put that shit in ya name. If that will make you trust me more.”
“Alright, you doing a lot. That’s a nice ass SUV.”
“I can and you can’t stop me. Didn’t you hear what I just said?”
The smile that spread across my face as I felt giddy about the thought of having a car in my name. It may haven’t been a luxury car, but it was still my favorite car to drive and I loved it.
“Thank you Marlo. For everything. You helped me so much and you didn’t have to do anything. I’ll never be able to show you how much I appreciate you.” I sincerely said looking him in his intense eyes and my heart started beating so loudly I could hear it in my ears.
“I ain’t did shit. Trust me if you was shitty a nigga would have fired ya pretty ass.” He snickered at me then he smiled big showing off his pearly whites.
“I hear you Marlo.”
“So, this mean we best friends again?”
“Just friends, I suppose I can make room for a friend.” I giggled as he scowled at my words.
“Like you had a choice I was finna be here every night until you became mybestfriend again.”
“I can do that for now. Or at least until I get a nigga. Then you might have to be demoted to just my boss again.” I couldn’t help but to tease him.
“And if that’s the case you don’t need a nigga cause we finna be besties to the end. The fuck you thought?” Marlo mugged me and I busted out laughing.
“Imma get a nigga eventually. Just no time soon.”
“That’s what you think,” Marlo grumbled as he continued to grill me.
